Ralph Fiennes in Samuel Beckett’s “First Love,” part of the Lincoln Center Festival.

Elegance without ostentation: that would describe the overview of Leonard Bernstein songs that the pianist Bill Charlap and the singer Kurt Elling brought to Bernstein’s theater music.

The musical “Robin and the 7 Hoods” will open on Broadway during the 2009-10 season, its producers said.

Estelle Getty holding the Emmy she won in 1988 for “The Golden Girls.”

Barry McGovern in “I’ll Go On,” from three Beckett novels.

Tracy Letts, author of “August: Osage County,” on the set of his new play, “Superior Donuts,” at the Steppenwolf Theater in Chicago.

Barry McGovern tackles “I’ll Go On,” a production combining three Samuel Beckett novels, at a celebration of Beckett at the Lincoln Center Festival.

Neil Young’s concept album “Greendale” continues to inspire spinoffs outside the music world, including a graphic novel and a multi-performer theater piece.

Liam Neeson is the title character in "Eh Joe," one of three works by Samuel Beckett at the Lincoln Center Festival.

Mrs. Nederlander was a producer of nine Broadway shows between 1976 and 1993, most notably of a revival of “West Side Story” in 1980.

Rosie O’Donnell on this year’s R Family Vacations cruise.

Jan Maxwell and David Barlow in Howard Barker’s “Scenes From an Execution.”

ENSEMBLE The cast of “The Little Hours,” from left: Maria Couch, Brooke Davis, Warren Kelley, Kim Carson and Ashley Puckett Gonzales.

MONSTER MASH NOTE Ryan Kelly as Belle and Josh Davis as the Beast in the Gateway Playhouse’s staging of “Beauty and the Beast.”

EARTH MOTHER Kate Burton as Mrs. Charlotte Wallace, a ditsy therapist, in Christopher Durang’s “Beyond Therapy” at the Bay Street Theater.

Candy Buckley and Tom Beckett in “Scramble!”

“The Castle” is an autobiographic drama created and played by former criminals.

From left, Heidi Blickenstaff, Hunter Bell, Susan Blackwell and Jeff Bowen in the musical "[title of show]."

Jenn Harris and Mark Setlock in “Pageant Play,” by Matthew Wilkas and Mr. Setlock, at the Berkshire Theater Festival.

From left, Christine Baranski, Meryl Streep and Julie Walters in "Mamma Mia!"

Selective listings from theater critics of The New York Times.

All in English: As the updated “Romeo and Juliet” characters, Carol Lawrence portrayed Maria and Larry Kert was Tony in the 1957 Broadway production.

Second Stage Theater, a nonprofit Off Broadway company, plans to announce that it has acquired the right to purchase the historic Helen Hayes Theater on West 44th Street.

Guy Massey, left, and Colm O'Reilly in "The Strangerer."